On Nov 23, 2007 1:36 AM, Wm Annis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Oops. Sent only to WK first.)
I hope the mailing list settings get fixed at some point. > *Everything* we do to communicate with computers is pretty unnatural. > I don't see how learning different precedence rules to program is any > different from learning that "if (a == 3 or 4 or 5) ..." doesn't mean the > same thing to a computer that it means in English. Is this an excuse to make computer suck? What are we talking about here? Let's stop thinking in terms of implementation complexity (math precedence won't add much, anyway) and start thinking in terms of how to make computers easier, more natural, and less error-prone for end-users (in this case, programmers using COLA). Bye, Waldemar Kornewald _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
